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1 tual energy of the author , which was more or less consciously felt , where it was outwardly and even boisterously denied , meeting with sentiments of aversion to his opinions , and of alarm at their consequences , produced an eddy of ...
1 tual energy of the author , which was more or less consciously felt , where it was outwardly and even boisterously denied , meeting with sentiments of aversion to his opinions , and of alarm at their consequences , produced an eddy of ...
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The first chapter of Isaiah ( indeed a very large proportion of the whole book ) is poetry in the most emphatic sense ; yet it would be not less irrational than strange to assert , that pleasure , and not truth , was the immediate ...
The first chapter of Isaiah ( indeed a very large proportion of the whole book ) is poetry in the most emphatic sense ; yet it would be not less irrational than strange to assert , that pleasure , and not truth , was the immediate ...
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In the application of these principles to purposes of practical criticism as employed in the appraisal of works more or less imperfect , I have endeavoured to discover what the qualities in a poem are , which may be deemed promises and ...
In the application of these principles to purposes of practical criticism as employed in the appraisal of works more or less imperfect , I have endeavoured to discover what the qualities in a poem are , which may be deemed promises and ...
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feelings , from those of which he is at once the painter and the analyst ; that though the very subject cannot but detract from the pleasure of a delicate mind , yet never was poem less dangerous on a moral account .
feelings , from those of which he is at once the painter and the analyst ; that though the very subject cannot but detract from the pleasure of a delicate mind , yet never was poem less dangerous on a moral account .
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Scarcely less sure , or if a less valuable , not less indispensable mark Γονίμε μέν Ποιητα - οςις ρημα γενναιον λακου , will the imagery supply , when , with more than the power of the painter , the poet gives us the liveliest image of ...
Scarcely less sure , or if a less valuable , not less indispensable mark Γονίμε μέν Ποιητα - οςις ρημα γενναιον λακου , will the imagery supply , when , with more than the power of the painter , the poet gives us the liveliest image of ...
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| Title | Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Publisher | Fenner, 1817 |
| Original from | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 23 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 309 pages |
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